Liberty's Exiles

Liberty's Exiles
Author: Maya Jasanoff
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2012-03-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1400075475

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER This groundbreaking book offers the first global history of the loyalist exodus to Canada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, India, and beyond. At the end of the American Revolution, sixty thousand Americans loyal to the British cause fled the United States and became refugees throughout the British Empire. Liberty’s Exiles tells their story. This surprising new account of the founding of the United States and the shaping of the post-revolutionary world traces extraordinary journeys like the one of Elizabeth Johnston, a young mother from Georgia, who led her growing family to Britain, Jamaica, and Canada, questing for a home; black loyalists such as David George, who escaped from slavery in Virginia and went on to found Baptist congregations in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone; and Mohawk Indian leader Joseph Brant, who tried to find autonomy for his people in Ontario. Ambitious, original, and personality-filled, this book is at once an intimate narrative history and a provocative analysis that changes how we see the revolution’s “losers” and their legacies.

Proceedings and Papers

Proceedings and Papers
Author: National Association of State Libraries. Convention
Publisher:
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1940
Genre: State libraries
ISBN:

Report

Report
Author: Florida. State Library Board
Publisher:
Total Pages: 522
Release: 1927
Genre: Florida
ISBN:

Report for 1963/64 covers activities of the State Library Board for the period Jan. 1-Oct. 17, 1963.

South Carolina Loyalists in the American Revolution

South Carolina Loyalists in the American Revolution
Author: Robert Stansbury Lambert
Publisher:
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1987
Genre: History
ISBN:

"...Puts into perspective the choices people faced because of the changing fortunes of the two sides, the civil war that raged in the backcountry and how it affected those who lived through it, and the decisions thrust upon families to flee to new lives in other parts of the empire or to make peace with the state government in hopes of remaining in South Carolina"--Book jacket.